Ten schools in the 17-high school Cobb County School District had graduation rates of 90 percent or higher, and four of them are in East Cobb.
The Cobb school district announced Class of 2025 graduation numbers, and Pope High School leads the pack.
Pope’s graduation rate of 98.2 percent led a Cobb school district that reported an overall rate of 89.2 percent, an all-time high. Harrison was second at 97.8 percent.
Lassiter was third at 97.3 percent and Walton was fourth at 97.2 percent.
Lassiter had been Cobb’s graduation rate leader for the last three years.
“Our record-high graduation rate of 89.2% is something the whole community can celebrate. It shows what’s possible when students work hard, teachers pour their hearts out, and families and staff stand together to support them,” Cobb Board of Education chairman David Chastain said in a district release.
“From big gains at South Cobb to steady excellence at schools like Pope, Walton, Harrison, and Lassiter—this is what happens when we stand as One Team and all invest in student success.”
The district didn’t include school-by-school results, but data released by the Georgia Department of Education show that Kell High School’s graduation rate for 2025 was 93.8 percent, at Sprayberry is was 89.4 percent and at Wheeler it was 89.4 percent.
The figures are compiled as part of what the state calls the “4-Year Cohort Graduation Rate.”
That is defined as follows:
“The number of students who graduate in four years with a regular high school diploma, divided by the number of students who form the adjusted cohort for the graduation class.”
The federal rate is calculated in the ninth grade, and includes even students who are enrolled only for a day.
Cobb also produces what it calls “a more complete” graduation rate, comparing the actual class sizes as they go through the 10th, 11th and 12th grades.
For 2025, Cobb said that 99.2 percent of seniors graduate who spent all four years in the district.
Cobb’s overall rate jumped by 1.3 percent in 2024, and the 89.2 percent figure is second among major school districts in metro Atlanta, trailing only Fulton (91.9 percent).
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